March has not exactly been a sterling month for the American fraternity system. First, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at the University of Oklahoma got itself booted from campus after video surfaced of members chanting that they'd rather lynch black men than admit them as brothers. Now, Kappa Delta Rho at Penn State turns out to have operated a private Facebook page where members traded pictures of, among other things, unconscious women; the chapter has been suspended for a year and police are investigating. In response, a former member of the fraternity has mounted what I've come to think of as the Social Relevance Defense. Though the Penn State case may be an extreme example,...

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